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VidFreak produces documentary explainers about consequences, systems, money, and living things—four original YouTube channels, two new videos a week on each—and short animated explainers on four more.

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The Consequence Chain■How It Holds Together■Who Gets Paid■How Living Things Work■Eight videos a week■

The Consequence Chain■How It Holds Together■Who Gets Paid■How Living Things Work■Eight videos a week■

The Consequence Chain■How It Holds Together■Who Gets Paid■How Living Things Work■Eight videos a week■

The Consequence Chain■How It Holds Together■Who Gets Paid■How Living Things Work■Eight videos a week■

Channels

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Four documentary channels: decisions and disasters, the built world, money and work, and living things. Two documentaries a week on each. Four more channels make short animated explainers.

8 channels / Documentaries and short explainers / YouTube

01

The Consequence Chain

The choices, pressures, mistakes, and turning points that make an extraordinary outcome possible.

Coverage

Failure, fraud & collapse
Dark stories & turning points

Decisions, disasters & consequencesYouTube

Decisions, disasters & consequences

View on YouTube

02

How It Holds Together

The mechanisms, infrastructure, and everyday machines that keep the built world running.

Coverage

Engineered & natural systems
Everyday systems, machines & how things are made

Physical & engineered systemsYouTube

Physical & engineered systems

View on YouTube

03

Who Gets Paid

Who pays, who gets paid, and where the money and the work actually go.

Coverage

Hidden businesses & places
Money & work

Money, work & hidden businessesYouTube

Money, work & hidden businesses

View on YouTube

04

How Living Things Work

Bodies, minds, animals, and survival—the living machine explained.

Coverage

Bodies & minds
Animals & survival

Bodies, minds & animalsYouTube

Bodies, minds & animals

View on YouTube

Short explainers.

01

Engineering in Disguise

Everyday objects hide clever engineering. Each short animated explainer opens one up and shows the mechanism inside.

Coverage

Locks
Light bulbs
Touchscreens
Kitchen gadgets

How things actually workYouTube

How things actually work

View on YouTube

02

Everyone Takes a Cut

Behind every purchase, fee and free app, someone gets paid.

Coverage

Purchases
Fees
Free apps

The hidden economyYouTube

The hidden economy

View on YouTube

03

Humans Have Reasons

Short animated explainers about the reasons behind everyday human behavior.

Coverage

Memory
Habits
Emotions
Decisions

Why people do thatYouTube

Why people do that

View on YouTube

04

Centuries in the Making

Short animated explainers that trace something you can see today back through history.

Coverage

Civilizations
Inventions
Cultures
Borders
Cities

Why the world ended up this wayYouTube

Why the world ended up this way

View on YouTube

The through-line

How we make videos.

01Start with a question that won’t leave us alone.
02Take the whole thing apart.
03Show the receipts, not the hot take.
04Leave you knowing something you didn’t.

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